Mrs. Michelle Obama, wife of the newly elected President of the U.S., Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Mr. William E. Todd, U.S. Ambassador to Cambodia, received a letter from the Borei Keila and the Boeung Kak Lake communities who were camping outside the U.S. embassy since yesterday. The communities hope that the November 18th […]
About 100 members of Suon Sophorn’s Sam Rainsy Party Youth movement (opposition) tried to march from ‘Freedom Park’ to the Royal Palace to request amnesty for those they consider condemned for political motives, among which they include Sam Rainsy, the opposition party leader living in self-imposed exile in France, but also Yorm Bopha and Tim […]
In the Boeung Kak Lake and Borei Keila saga, Tim Sakmony and Yorm Bopha were denied bail this morning at the Appeals Court. Tim Sakmony, who was arrested because she had demonstrated after having had her house destroyed during the Borei Keila eviction, was refused bail because she had no proper house! Both communities showed […]
Today is a holiday. Cambodia celebrates the birthday of King Norodom Sihanouk. He would have reached the age of 90 had he not died 17 days ago. People still come to the Royal Palace to pay respect (and to make some money by selling fire to worshippers wanting to light their incense sticks). The cremation […]
Things come together. After a two-week truce, members of the Boeung Kak Lake and Borei Keila community picked up their demonstration baton again, be it a very peacefull one. They gathered in front of the Royal Palace to pray and ‘ask the former king’s magic to help Yearm Bopha and Kim Sakmony’ who are imprisoned […]
On sunday it is more the people from the countryside gathering and praying in front of the Royal Palace to the memory of their deceased king. Small vans and trucks fill the parking lot nearby. For me it is a good opportunity to add a few photographs to the elusive ‘On the Edge’ project. All […]
’30 Years for a Trial’, my iBook about the first Khmer Rouge Trial is almost finished. Fine-tuning the glossary, checking the captions, uploading the baby and you should be able to download it to your iPad within the next couple of weeks…
The official mourning period for King Norodom Sihanouk of 7 days ended yesterday. Attendance in front of the Royal Palace has drastically declined, suddenly revealing those who were probably there the previous days but went mostly unnoticed, drowned as they were in the crowds of worshippers: the street children eking out a living by selling […]